BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION · Psycho-Frame

70 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 16 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 32 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-46.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQAKFAEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 16 more.

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